The year is 2005, and pop punk is taking over the radio waves. The guitars are heavy, the bass is thrashing, and the lyrics are coming atcha fast. At the center of all of this was Fall Out Boy with the massive hit ‘Sugar We’re Goin Down’. Even the kids in our high school who didn’t like rock were singing this in the hallways. It was everywhere. It’s the song that turned Tom and Pat’s high school band into what it was, and if there’s anything that’s better than this song, it’s most definitely the music video.
Music video director Matt Lenski did more in 3 minutes and 50 seconds than most filmmaker do in 90 minutes, told a compelling and heartwarming story about a boy who loves a girl, a man who hates a boy, but turns out to actually hate himself. It was very well done, finger-licking salute and all.
Links:
Sugar We’re Goin Down Music Video
'Sugar We're Goin' Down' is a really great example of people with antlers in cinema by Pat Holmes
Number 1 With a Bullet Origins
Sugar We’re Goin Down Misheard Lyrics Video
Songs of the week:
Camouflage by The Front Bottoms
Imported by Jessie Reyez and 6LACK
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Rise or Die Trying is another one of those albums that we should all feel lucky happened in our lifetime. It’s truly 1 in a billion. To have so much happiness, poppiness, and brutal breakdownness all in 1 album is still mind bending to this day. We had never heard anything like it at the time, causing a massive shift in the landscape of pop punk moving forward.
Pat and Tom take their time appreciating every song on this album for the subtleties that made each track unique and interesting. How this album remained at an 11 the whole time and TOTALLY pulled it off remains a mystery, but this massive swing of a record will go down in history as one of the biggest hits of all time.
Links:
Rise or Die Trying on Apple Music
Songs of the week:
Your Dog by Soccer Mommy
Only the Young by Taylor Swift
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The year is 2006, you’re crushing on that cutie from homeroom, and you don’t know how to tell her how you feel. What do you do? You make her a mixtape that will let her know all the things you wish you could put into words. But you chicken out. You don’t give her the CD, but instead listen to it yourself as you notice all those things she does that make you feel brand new. This week, the guys drafted the songs they would put on that mixtape, were this the year 2006 and they were crushing on some homeroom cutie.
Links:
The Pop Punk Valentine’s Day Mixtape Draft Playlist on Apple Music
The Pop Punk Valentine’s Day Mixtape Draft Playlist on Spotify
The Something Corporate Episode
Tom, Pat, and Zach dressed up as Blink-182
Alive With the Glory of Love Episode
Songs of the week:
Fine, Great by Modern Baseball
7:30 Am by Slothrust
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Gives You Hell by The All American Rejects is a multi-platinum masterpiece that swept the world for what felt like years, but there’s SO much to appreciate about this song that we had to take the track piece by piece, and the music video frame by frame. There’s a lot to love about this song that almost didn’t even make it on to the record because the band had such little confidence in it.
The music video could easily warrant a 20,000 word thesis, but I’ve got like 1,000 characters so let’s move quickly. This thing matches the song in terms of quality, catchiness, and total inability to consume it only once. There’s SO much going on, and the most interesting part may be the relationship between our antagonist, the young rock star who doesn’t give a flip about nothin’, and our older domesticated board game aficionado “antagonist” and how OUR relationship with those characters has changed over time. All there is to say is we are do appreciate a quiet neighborhood.
Links:
Gives You Hell Narrative Music Video
Gives You Hell Performance Music Video
The Reason Music Video by Hoobastank
Songs of the week:
2021 by Vampire Weekend
LOTL by 7 Minutes In Heaven
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